tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post4025085243292894111..comments2024-03-29T07:38:17.008-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: Performance and MediaBryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-54519617074635062632018-06-03T08:48:52.988-05:002018-06-03T08:48:52.988-05:00Interesting suggestion! I have never really gotten...Interesting suggestion! I have never really gotten very far into Saint-Saëns, so should give him a try. Maybe I can avoid the fate of Malcolm McDowell.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-35128181434676222152018-06-03T07:31:15.510-05:002018-06-03T07:31:15.510-05:00Bryan, if a self administered intervention is pre...Bryan, if a self administered intervention is prescribed, may I suggest the final movement of Saint-Saens' symphony #3. Just listen and succumb to the walls and waves of sound. The piano runs that follow the introductory organ pedal points always have a cleansing effect for me. I think your readers are a few steps away from going all "Clock-work Orange" on you. Davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-65809084872223798702018-06-02T19:04:57.824-05:002018-06-02T19:04:57.824-05:00Don't worry guys, this is the only hip-hop tra...Don't worry guys, this is the only hip-hop track that interests me, so far at least! Still, better keep an eye on me in case I need an intervention later. Will, I agree with everything you say about Runaway. Judged by normal aesthetic criteria, at least the ones we use in classical music, the piece has all the shortcomings you mention. But I suspect there is a different aesthetic operating here. And given the utterly different technological and cultural context, why wouldn't there be a different aesthetic spectrum? All that I wanted to point out here is that, compared to the usual hip hop song and music video, this is very different and has some interesting creative elements.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-73514446753707103012018-06-02T17:37:28.262-05:002018-06-02T17:37:28.262-05:00Am beginning to wonder if we need to stage an inte...Am beginning to wonder if we need to stage an intervention. (Joke, joke.) <br /><br />A co-worker was trying to explain to me yesterday how <i>ye</i>, Kanye's latest-- he had watched the launch party via his iPhone, or something like that-- is wonderful etc etc. I nodded along but eventually told him that I'm still not convinced that <i>Runaway</i> is a masterpiece, ahem, so I'd better wait a bit before tackling <i>I thought about killing you</i>' and its companion tracks.Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-82874396199362092802018-06-02T15:46:18.634-05:002018-06-02T15:46:18.634-05:00Interesting until the drum machine and associated ...Interesting until the drum machine and associated "typical" pop beat music kicked in, then went down the drain when singing about "douche-bags and scum-bags," and the overall singing is not very good even for pop, made worse whenever "rap" came in. Its as if he wants to give a classical or "fine" veneer to vulgar ghetto music. Mundane lyrics when I paid attention to them. This music is not very good. Video? I looked occasionally but I never have been one to watch my music, except live opera, where indeed there is rapport between the artists and audience. Even the piano motif is elementary, ordinary pop at best, and the string quartet, electrified and studio manipulated, is not fine, more like an anti-art statement as would suit Nirvana or the punk rockers rebelling against virtuosity and beauty.<br /><br />Obviously I have trouble making friends.... I'm stuck in a rut where Corelli trio sonatas block the destructive effects electrical devices are having on our culture and spirit.Will Wilkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01997868915978439364noreply@blogger.com